IT has been a good National Hunt season for Alan King, who had the satisfaction of supplying A.P. McCoy with his farewell Cheltenham Festival winner, Uxizandre.

He was no doubt disappointed when Chatez failed to progress after starting well over hurdles but the four-year-old won a very warm handicap at Haydock last May and returned to that sort of form in the Lincoln ‘consolation’, the Betway Spring Mile.